Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-01
A GRAND OVATION.
Thousands Throng to shake Hands With
the President.

Thousands ThronG to- shake Hands With
the President.
ALTOONA, PA, September 3O.-At
Altoona there was = roaring crowd,
filling every inch OF the immense station
platform, and so far as conld be seen in
the gathering darkness, all the open Fe-
ginn round about Every face wore a
emile, ana every voice screamed q well
come, hut the thropg was nevertheless q
bowling, swayiug, pushing mob. Before
the train had stopped, one wild-eyed en-
thuSiastIc had climbed over the railings OF
the platform with Here you are, Mr..
President" " graSped the hand Of the Presi-
dent, and theE farming emitted the super
lluOus call for three GneIrs from the al
ready hoarse thrOats of th0SS WhO
followed. The President stepped down
TO the station platlNm and an
attempt was made to pass the
multitude before him, TO give an OppOrtu-
nifty for hanR shaking, hut despite the
commands, threats, entTeSt.eJ and even
blows of those who tried To manage the af-
fair, the people surged aheaIj from both
sides, and from in front ~ we'll. The Pres.
dent was urged to retreat TO the platform
himself, but he shook his head and stur-
div kept his place below, smilingly at
Erst, but with a more earnest and protest
ng lOOE later. He grasped hand when
ever hs saL OGe thrust between or over or
around those vino were in front, and mo-
toned vigorously to the masses 10 keep
back from the right and approach from the
left
Sirs. Cleveland, who accompanied her
husband 10 the platform,
CREATED : DIVERSION,
and afforded measure of relief by re-
treating To the parlOr OF the car and seat
iug herself in the full glare Of electric
lights al cne of the wide plate glass win
dows The flank the multitude caught
sight OF the winSOme picture and crowded
around TO look upon it. The President
now stepped back on the car platform, as
the allotted time WAS up, but even now
they were unwilling to let him 20. The
last hand he shook was that OF a man who
had climbed upon the roof of the ear and
hung head downward over the rear.
There was noted, he il said, not n sign
of intentional rudeness throughout, bpt
Notwithstanding the good nature aGd we'll
meant enthusiasm Of the people, the eN-
preston of hope is warranted that better
arrangements will be made ahead. The
President admitted, as he entered the car,
that he had Eeyer had quite such an expe-
rience beioTe. The only thing he regretted,
however, was that snCh arrangements had
rot been made as would h2"c given a
grestsr number the opportunity to meet
kiR.
As soon IS the train left Altoona the ex-
cursiOnists were summoned to dinner. On
the way up the mountain side the train
ran into local storm which cleared away
before the Horse Shoe was passed. At
Johnstown and at many other points
cheers. sometime guns were heard.
TORCHES &Sp FLAMBEAUX
were waved, but the people themselves
were invisible from the brilliantly lighted
interior.
At a point called Grapeyille, about 20
miles east of Pittsburg, the train was halt
ed and its occupants were summonded to
the rear platform A roaring sound IS of
escaping steam from the pipes Of an impa-
tient ocean steamer WAS heard from the
hillside hundred rods away to the left,
but nothing was visible except the lights
ia the few scattered farm houses of the
neighbOrhOOd. Developments were await
ed iH SILENCE. Now some one on the hill
side lighted lIonaH candle and aimed its
discharge toward the pOiat whence the
roaring came, and soon a fame, tea ieet
broad, leaped i'll the air to the height of q
hundred feet, showing the nearer hillsides
IN . geird, uncanny fashion, and more
dimly bringing opt the ghosts of those be-
hind. Again from over the bill top to the
right leaped another great fame, and these
hissed and rOared together until the train
was ont Of sight.
This entertainment was prepared by Gen.
eral Manager O'Day, Of the United Pipe
Lines, who described TO the observers, in
reply to their inquiries, some Of the fea-
lures OF the phenomena, OF which the nat
nral gas we'll Is The most striking manifes-
tatien.
THIS evening the President in reuIy to
an lnquiry as TO how he was enioying his
journey expressed
| HIS WARM APPROVAL
oil all that had been done by the Pullman
people for his comfort and declared that